Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 108
March 21, 2010
Gowalla My Dreams
What if Gowalla and Foursquare could communicate seamlessly with Address Book? What if Google Maps contained the postal address, company names, and primary phone numbers of every pin on the map? All this information could be marked up in Microformats and standard HTML on optional detail pages you could visit with a click from your web browser or phone. Heck, while we're at it, let's add Bump, an iPhone app that lets two people share contact data the same way they share...
March 18, 2010
Hate and Love
Left, Mike Monteiro. Right, yours sincerely. Captured at SXSW by Scott Beale.
(My SXSW photos. Scott's SXSW photos.)
March 17, 2010
Ed Bott's Lament
In "IE9: Microsoft's new browser gets no respect at all," ZDNet's Ed Bott sees seething contempt where I intended even-handed calm, and asks why my discussion yesterday of the tone of a months-old IE announcement failed to discuss yesterday's keynote at MIX10, which I didn't see.
Ed, for the record: I didn't see the MIX10 keynote, which took place while I was traveling home from SXSW Interactive and after I wrote "IE9 Preview." I wasn't responding to the keynote. I was...
A SXSW Story
One of the things about SXSW Interactive is that you are constantly meeting new people. One day at breakfast, I was introduced to a friend of a friend, who said:
"Your book is dangerous."
"That's kind of you to say," I replied, "but exactly how is Designing With Web Standards dangerous?"
"Oh," he said. "You didn't write Rework?"
March 16, 2010
IE9 preview
Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just the flames?
In An Early Look At IE9 for Developers, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, reports on performance progress, web standards progress (border-radius, bits of CSS3, Acid 3 performance), and "bringing the power of PC hardware and Windows to web developers in the browser" (e.g. improved type rendering via Direct2D, a Windows sub-pixel rendering technology that replaces Cleartype).
The reported web standards i...
March 12, 2010
Photos from SXSW
SXSW 2010: A photo set on Flickr (in progress). The festival began this afternoon at 2:00 PM Central. Lots more photos will appear over the next few days.
March 11, 2010
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March 10, 2010
My SXSW
It's that time again. Spring and pheromones are in the air, and 11,000 web geeks are about to descend on beauteous Austin, TX for our industry's version of the TED Conference plus Spring Break, SXSW Interactive.
Along with nearly all of Happy Cog, I'll be there. Join us, won't you?
Friday, March 12, at 3:30 PM, come to Battledecks 2010 in Room 18ABCD, where I'll compete against the likes of Avery Edison, Ted Rheingold, Mike Monteiro, and SeoulBrother Number 1 Albert McMurry to...True Self
Happy Cog'aoke 2 / Lesson Four: 'Over the Top' from Happy Cog on Vimeo.
See all the videos on OK! Happy Cog'aoke, and join us in Austin for the best party of SXSW.
